Anthony Amankwatia
Owings Mills,United States
Summary
Accomplished project manager specializing in agile methodologies and stakeholder engagement. Skilled in requirement gathering and people management, enabling effective project governance and successful project delivery across diverse teams and vendors.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
2
2
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work History
Snr Project Manager / Scrum Master
Radian Group Inc
Wayne, United States
10.2021 - Current
- Act as a consultant to functional and technical teams to provide an understanding of the interrelationship between business requirements and systems designs.
- Ensure objectives are met through effective stakeholder engagement, dependency management and project governance.
- Define and manage timelines and scope using backlog refinement and agile scheduling techniques such as Scrum, Kanban and SAFe.
- Apply a balance of traditional project management practices and agile principles to meet program objectives.
- Serve in a lead role to reinforce vision and priority on behalf of the program.
- Experience driving the work of a cross functional team including both FTE and vendor resources.
- Proactively identify and mitigate risks.
- Lead and coordinate work of cross functional teams including both FTE and vendor resources.
- Work with multiple teams and vendors to troubleshoot issues from 3rd party vendor & offshore teams.
- Started the project from scratch by driving project plan, resource plan and budget components throughout the project.
Project Manager/Area Manager
Amazon
Baltimore, United States
08.2019 - 10.2021
- Monitors and reports on the progress of all project activity within the project including significant milestones and any conditions which would affect project cost or schedule.
- Responsible for overall project schedule that enables the teams to be successful based upon the project milestones and Go-Live.
- Collaborate with other teams in the Agile Release Train to manage cross-dependence and risks.
- Empower team and facilitate creativity while guarding quality and monitoring iteration progress for successful completion.
- Assist PO and Team in effective road mapping and planning for the product and development teams in prompt time managing over 10 developers onshore and offshore.
- Create weekly dashboard reports using Excel, Tableau, word, PowerPoint compiling production issue trends (Incidents) to drive continuous improvement and drive down re-occurring incidents.
- Scrum Master for 2 cross-functional teams in production support and application delivery / monitoring.
- Facilitate and lead agile ceremonies (daily stand up, retrospective, iteration planning, backlog grooming) and foster continuous improvement.
- Coach and mentor team members to promote agile thinking by ensuring adherence to the process.
- Ensure agile principles of Transparency, Inspect, and Adapt, are implemented throughout the process of production.
- Conduct cross-organizational coordination as required in support of project delivery.
- Works closely with the product owner to ensure the backlog remains groomed and ready for the team's consumption.
- Removes impediments/blockers and guides the team on remediating bugs efficiently.
- Lead Agile SCRUM teams, products, and processes across the lifecycle of the project.
- Designed, built, and maintained boards, workflows, schemes, etc. for a variety of business use cases in Jira, as well as coordinated use of Confluence and Teams.
- Started building an application called AMOS from scratch by driving project charter, resource plan, budget and managed all these components throughout the project.
- Identify any roadblocks to the team and take proactive action to resolve them.
- Take ownership of the product backlogs, demo & retrospective.
- Coordinate and lead cross-functional meetings, document decisions & follow-up on actions.
Project Manager
Sherwin-Williams
Baltimore, United States
10.2017 - 08.2019
- Facilitated workshops to implement Agile values and principles within teams.
- Helped transition teams from waterfall to agile.
- Understood the project vision and led the teams towards achieving the project objectives.
- Handled risk assessments and tracked project milestones and got projects signed off.
- Exercised strong analytical and problem-solving skills and excellent communication skills.
- Tracked and reported daily progress and program states to key stakeholders.
- Facilitated scrum meetings, sprint planning, daily meetings, sprint demos and sprint retrospectives.
- Demonstrated an excellent understanding of Agile frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, XP, etc.
- Maintained Scrum artifacts: product backlog, sprint backlog and product increments.
- Worked with and educated (when needed) the PO especially with respect to refining, managing the product backlog and decision making.
- Designed, built, and maintained boards, workflows, schemes, etc. for a variety of business use cases in Jira, as well as coordinated use of Confluence and Teams.
- Experience driving the work of a cross functional team including both FTE and vendor resources.
- Coached the team on effective techniques of writing user stories, acceptance criteria, product prioritization and refinement.
Process Engineer
MODEC International
Houston, United States
06.2013 - 01.2016
- Reported all safety and environmental incidents / accidents and near misses to drive a culture focused on health, safety, and compliance.
- Managed class certifications of the facility per ABS standards.
- Spearheaded complex continuous improvement initiatives within process plant to maximize production and efficiency through DMAIC.
- Managed all gas injection activities (HP compressors, LP compressors, gas dehydration units etc.).
- Managed sea water injection activities (rate of injection, pumps, sea water treatment).
- Coordinated weekly operations meeting.
- Management of Change (MoC) procedures and processes for process optimization changes.
- Corrosion management scheduling in Asset Management and Operating System (AMOS).
- Act as investigation lead for deviations related to process systems and apply Root Cause Analysis to the investigation.
- Led engineering team and vendors in redesigning Inlet Coarse Filters of water treatment plant on facility using ASPEN HYSYS for all design works.
- Project support on changing flow indicators downstream of chemical injection pumps to Flow transmitter to help monitor chemical injection rate via Distributed Control System by Central Control Room Operator.
- Project lead for Cooling Medium Revamping: Conducted RCA and mobilized vendors to assist executing identified problems.
- The process engineering team monitored fast-paced production of oil and gas. Ensured full compliance with cost, quality, health, and safety requirements. Worked across groups to lead projects aimed at enhancing plant operating performance through lean manufacturing principles and procedures.
Education
MSc. - Petroleum Engineering
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 01.2016 - 08.2017
Skills
- Planning Roadmaps
- Writing user stories
- Delivering sustainable results
- Incident management
- Problem management
- Change management
- Requirement gathering
- People management
- Meeting coordination
- Adaptable
- Automated Testing
- SQL
- Microsoft Excel
- Python
- Continuous integration/Continuous deployment Pipelines
- Use of planning and tracking tools (Azure DevOps, Jira, and ServiceNow)
Certification
- SAFe Scrum Master
- Project Management Professional
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
References
References will be provided upon request.
Work Authorization
United States Citizen
Timeline
Snr Project Manager / Scrum Master
Radian Group Inc
10.2021 - Current
Project Manager/Area Manager
Amazon
08.2019 - 10.2021
Project Manager
Sherwin-Williams
10.2017 - 08.2019
MSc. - Petroleum Engineering
University of Southern California
01.2016 - 08.2017
Process Engineer
MODEC International
06.2013 - 01.2016